TRADOS Seeks Strength In Numbers

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TRADOS has announced a Globalization Partner Program in an effort to bring “together leading globalization software and services companies to remove complex, persistent barriers that prevent enterprises from effectively reaching global markets.” In other words, if we can all get along with one another perhaps we can all make a little extra money.

In all seriousness, this is what the clients want: content management software, localization software and globalization management software that all play well with one another. I’m glad TRADOS is taking the lead on this.

This is a nice mix of large and small vendors. I have no hard research to base this on but I get the feeling we’re going to see another wave of CMS vendors emerge, spawned in part by the open-source movement and the failure of the “big boys” like Documentum and Vignette to ever ship a low-end solution.

So, for the clients, content globalization is going to get more complicated before they get less complicated, which is why the TRADOS partner program is a good idea at the right time.